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Las huérfanas (Novela biográfica) / The Orphans (A Biographical Novel) (Spanish Edition)

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Melba Escobar
    Format:
    Paperback
    Pages:
    216
    Publisher:
    Planeta Publishing Corp (February 25, 2025)
    Imprint:
    Planeta Publishing
    Language:
    Spanish
    Audience:
    General/trade
    ISBN-13:
    9786073922784
    ISBN-10:
    6073922787
    Dimensions:
    5.2" x 9.1"
    File:
    TWO RIVERS-PERSEUS-Metadata_Only_Perseus_Distribution_Customer_Group_Metadata_20260130163536-20260131.xml
    Folder:
    TWO RIVERS
    List Price:
    $19.95
    Country of Origin:
    Mexico
    Pub Discount:
    60
    Case Pack:
    40
    As low as:
    $17.16
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-PER
    Discount Code:
    C
    Weight:
    6.4oz
  • Overview

    Soy Melba, la menor de cuatro hermanas. Soy el resultado de un amor imposible entre dos mundos, dos seres extraordinarios, dos patologías.

    Las Huérfanas es una excavación en la memoria del personaje monumental que fue mi mamá: Myriam De Nogales, una mujer inalcanzable en sus destrezas y talentos, apasionada, caustica, herida e hiriente, brillante.

    Once años antes de tenerme mi mamá se lanzó por una ventana. Me lo contó cuando me llegó mi primer período, como un escabroso ritual de bienvenida a la pubertad. Este libro es también una indagación en los lazos familiares, en la forma en que creamos la identidad femenina, así como en el espectro de la figura patriarcal en la construcción de nuestro universo interior. Así es como celebro el paso por la tierra de todos mis muertos, en especial de mi madre, la muerta que más vive en mí. También celebro a mi prima, Myriam De Nogales, tocaya y sobrina de mamá, para quien el suicidio fue más que un intento. A las lectoras y lectores de esta novela les deseo que este exorcismo del alma, este acto de psicomagia, esta exploración de los fantasmas que nos habitan les traiga el consuelo que me trajo a mí.

    ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

    I am Melba, the youngest of four sisters. I am the result of an impossible love between two worlds, two extraordinary beings, two pathologies.

    Las Huérfanas (The Orphans) is an excavation into the memory of the monumental character that was my mother: Myriam De Nogales, an unattainable woman in her skills and talents, passionate, caustic, wounded and wounding, brilliant.

    Eleven years before having me, my mother jumped out of a window. She told me this when I got my first period, as a gruesome ritual of welcoming me into puberty. This book is also an investigation into family ties, the way we create female identity, as well as the spectrum of the patriarchal figure in the construction of our inner universe. This is how I celebrate the passage through the earth of all my deceased, especially my mother, the deceased who lives the most in me. I also celebrate my cousin, Myriam De Nogales, my mother's namesake and niece, for whom suicide was more than an attempt. To the readers of this novel, I hope this exorcism of the soul, this act of psychomagic, this exploration of the ghosts that inhabit us, brings you the solace it brought me.